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On the Scene : Should health care workers be required to get flu vaccinations?

Home / Blogs / On the Scene / On the Scene : Should health care workers be required to get flu vaccinations?

Mandatory policies increase participation at some hospitals, but are still disputed by unions and some staffers.

Published: 2010-10-25 12:04:23
Found in: Science & Society
On the Scene : Lies, damned lies and psychology experiments

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Researchers may deceive themselves when they mislead study participants.

Published: 2010-10-22 14:09:10
Found in: Behavior and Psychology
On the Scene : Guts of a twister

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DENVER — It’s always easy to tell when you’re at a conference of the American Meteorological Society. Fliers advertise book signings on the history of broadcast meteorology. “Storm video nights” highlight everyone’s favorite destructive storms. And the hotel-lobby chatter about tomorrow’s weather? You know you can trust it. True to form, this year’s AMS conference on severe local storms featured a topic dear to all Discovery Channel junkies — early results from the VORTEX2 tornado-chasing experiment. This is the sort of research you’ve seen endless documentaries on,...

Published: 2010-10-13 16:58:53
On the Scene : An uncomfortable silence

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — How can astronomers advise NASA on how to trim the costs of developing missions if no one will tell them how much the costliest mission of all, the James Webb Space Telescope, is running over budget? That’s what Alan Boss, chair of the independent NASA Astrophysics Subcommittee, would like to know. When the subcommittee met in Washington, D.C., on September 16 and 17, Boss and his colleagues already knew that the $5 billion infrared space observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor now set for launch in 2014, was once again in need of a monetary transfusion. ...

Published: 2010-09-17 13:03:59
Found in: Atom & Cosmos
On the Scene : Neuroanatomy down on the farm

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Researchers retreat to bucolic surroundings for brain cell-mapping competition.

Published: 2010-08-31 16:50:50
On the Scene : Genome of a chief

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Ancient DNA experts say they are analyzing a lock of Sitting Bull's hair.

Published: 2010-08-17 13:36:56
Found in: Anthropology, Genes & Cells and Humans
On the Scene : The universe according to Planck

Home / Blogs / On the Scene / July 31, 2010; Vol.178 #3 / On the Scene : The universe according to Planck

Science News editor in chief Tom Siegfried reports on a new image of the early cosmos from the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Turin, Italy. (p. 15)

Published: July 31, 2010; Vol.178 #3
Found in: Astronomy
On the Scene : New carbon data should produce better climate forecasts

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BLOG: More refined measurements for carbon dioxide input by plants and carbon dioxide released during respiration will help models, Science News editor in chief Tom Siegfried reports from the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 in Turin, Italy.

Published: 2010-07-05 20:23:45
Found in: Climate Change
On the Scene : Loop Current will determine spill's ultimate fate

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Oceanographers track a newly formed eddy in the Gulf of Mexico and where it might carry oil.

Published: 2010-06-15 17:56:37
Found in: Environment and Science & Society
On the Scene : Young scientists and engineers get inspired

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As I walked around the convention center in San Jose, Calif., last week talking with students at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, I was struck by how many of the projects were inspired by something personal. These young scientists noticed that something was wrong, and then—here’s the best part—they actually tried to fix it.

Published: 2010-05-19 16:33:45
Found in: Science & Society

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